I definitely misspelled the word. That was my error. It was tertiary.
It seems my mistakingly leaving out the second "t" in tertiary, in a post where I had previously used the words "primary" and "secondary" in describing the first two of three things, caused you to be completely and utterly unable to gleam what word I was meaning via contextual clues and thus unable to comprehend the entire post I made.
As such, now that I've explained what the word was (tertiary, meaning "third in order), you can better understand what my previous post said. Or if you'd like I'll try a bit more basic summary of it below.
Holding elected office is experience related to being President, an elected office.
In terms of direct experience related to the Presidency...ie the Chief Executive and the Commander in Chief of the United States...there are generally three teirs of experience in my opinion, which is backed by the general broad thought process within the Political Science community and by history itself.
Category 1 (Best Experience)
1a. Executive experience in government (VP, Governor, perhaps to a lesser degree a mayor of a large city or lt. governor)
1b. High ranking military command, typically when an election is during a time of war or heightened concerns on national security
Category 2 (Lesser Experience)
2a. Part of the US Senate
2b. Part of the US House
2c. A highly regarded executive cabinet member (like Secretary of State)
Category 3 (Least Exeprience)
3a. State legislature experience
3b. Lower to mid ranking military experience
3c. Executive experience in the private sector in a large capacity (large corporation, non-profit, big event like the olympics)
While other types of experience may prove useful in various fashions...like being a Doctor as it relates to issues of health policy, or being a constitutional scholar...they are less direct primary experience to the job of the Presidency and are more, for lack of a better term, resume fillers.
The vast majority of our Presidents in history have had category 1 experience (can't remember the exact percent, but I believe it was over 90% prior to Obama coming into power and I haven't recalculated since). 100% of our Presidents in history have had AT LEAST Category 2 experience. We have never elected a President who at best had Category 3 direct experience, let alone someone without ANY direct experience. I can't think of a major party nominee that would fit that bill either, though admittedly I know those off the top of my head less than I do the Presidents.
Ben Carson does not even have experience that would merit a legitimate claim for falling within Category 3. He would be abjectly and unquestionably the least qualified President we would ever have, and would quite possibly...if he made the republican ticket...be the least Qualified major party presidentical candidate in at least the past 75 years.